Canadian bill facts

Hey, just saw this on a website and thought it might be of interest to someone. I didn't know any of this!
Q: Was there ever a $3 bill issued in Canada?
A: Yes, but the last $3 bank note was dated 1886, and was issued by the St. Stephen's Bank of New Brunswick. The bill was prohibited by the Bank Act of 1871 but the ban didn't apply to the St. Stephen's Bank in St. Stephen's New Brunswick. Also,$ 4, $5, $6, $7 and $8 bills existed at one time. The government printed $4 bills up till 1911; $4 was equalivalent to one pound of sterling silver.

I think the $20 bill should be phased out, and replaced with a $25 bill. That would put more $10s into circulation (as change), and I think the overall lifetime of a $25 would be longer than a $20. Besides, coin already comes in denominations of .25.

Eh Broccoli,
Thats cool info. i didn't know that $3-$8 bills were made other than the obvious $5. Very interesting facts.
Later,
Give Me Money

ahh you m ust be young then if you dont remember ones and twos

"I think the $20 bill should be phased out, and replaced with a $25 bill."
I'd like to see a 33-1/3 dollar bill- partly to drive people crazy who don't know how to count back change from a till, and partly to pay homage to LP records- kind of a history thing to drive young people crazy. (My son just asked me 'what's an LP record'…).

LOL I had a couple people come in the store one time and this kid asked his dad if these 8-tracks I had were old atari games. That was hilarious. especially the dad trying to explain that they were way older than atari.

Things the new generation have no idea about:
Sliderules; Lp records; 8-tracks; typewriters;
Terms not in use anymore:
54's (as in I got a 54 last weekend); hippy (way out man…); beatnik (way, way out man…).

Feel free to add any others- I know there are many others!

I know the items you are talking about. But where did these words come from.. I have never heard any of it. 54? Beatrik? AHHH

Dude, beatnik is from Kerouac and Burroughs and Ginsberg. But I have no idea what a 54 is. And what'a a sliderule?

A 54 is a drinking and driving ticket.
A sliderule was replaced by the calculator.
How about
a 45
a 78
a phonograph
a lump of coal for Christmas means what???

They should get a $12.5 bill made. The US of colonial times used to have them if I recall correctly.

54 was what a person got fined for drinking in a vehicle….$50.00 fine and $4.00 court costs. I paid many of them in my younger days

45 & 78 go back to before 8 tracks(WHAT TRACKS????) records, 45 being a single song on each side of the record and a 78 was a long play record with up to 8 songs on a side. And of course, you needed a phonograph to play records on.
And I have been threatened with a lump of coal for Christmas!!!

33- 1/3 was a long play record. The 78's were those early, brittle-as-glass ones your parents used to listen to Wally! We used to put LP's (33-1/3 rpm) on at 78 speed and everyone sounded like the 'Chipmunks' 'member them?
Great for spinning pet gerbils on too!

I hate to tell you wally but a 78 had only one song on each side. They were still around when I was young but they were around..
Chipmunks- Alvin Theodore and Simon

I stand corrected……I do remember playing 78's though….wondered why anyone would want to listen to something that scratchy…..and gathering around the sound horn to hear better

now I sell all of those afirementioned items in my antique collectibles store!! :o))

I have an ATRAC CD it has 300 songs, right now, on it..

I have 8 tracks too, but no player.

"I have 8 tracks too, but no player."

Talk to Pooga…I think his still works! :-)

No not that young that i can't remember $1,$2 bills, but thanks for the compliment from this 30+ under 40 young guy:)
Later,
Give Me Money

My taekwondo teacher's wife thought I wasn't old enough to drive the other day. (I'm 25) Guess looking like a baby runs in my family. My sister (who is 21 and married) got asked if she wanted a balloon and childrens menu at a resto we were at!

far out man

I was thinking of the old phones with the real DIALS on them, could the new generation figure that out? And who could forget typing class on those big old manual typewriters (bang, bang, bang, ding, swing, crash!!) I may not be that old, but even I spent the first eleven years of my life without running water, meaning: no flush toilets and heating all that water for baths and laundry on a woodstove.
And there was a wringer washer, how fun.
Baking bread every other day.
Butchering our own chickens, pigs and cows.
Yes, times have changed.

I know how to use the old real dialing phones. My grandma had one. They are so slow, if you get a number with alot of 7-9s it will take you 2 mins to dail. Gee.

I actually got a lump of coal for Christmas once…..